Article ID: CBB956259833

Bending the Clock: New Perspectives on Nineteenth-Century Ageing: A Roundtable Conversation (2021)

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Over the past decade, several academic studies have taken nineteenth-century ageing as their topic, including Devoney Looser’s Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain (2008), Karen Chase’s The Victorians and Old Age (2009), Kay Heath’s Aging by the Book (2009), and Alice Crossley’s special issue of Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies (2017). Following the publication of two significant new monographs — Andrea Charise’s The Aesthetics of Senescence (2020) and Jacob Jewusiak’s Aging, Duration, and the English Novel (2019) — the time is ripe for a synthesis of this dynamic cluster of scholarship, with special attention to where nineteenth-century perspectives on ageing is going, and ought to go, from here. Recorded in January 2020, this roundtable is a curated compilation of conversations with key scholars in the field: Devoney Looser (Arizona State University), David McAllister (Birkbeck, University of London), Ruth M. McAdams (Skidmore College), Jake Jewusiak (Newcastle University), and Travis Chi Wing Lau (Kenyon College). Edited by Andrea Charise, this roundtable assembles new perspectives on the present and future of nineteenth-century studies of age(ing), including: What’s next for age studies’ approaches to reading and teaching nineteenth-century texts? How might a better understanding of ‘old’ models inform our current day concerns with ageing populations and intergenerational discord? Can age studies research help make a case for the enduring role of the arts and humanities in a STEM-dominated culture? And how might attending to the old, ageing, and obsolete help address newly emergent global crises, including the rise of populism and climate change? Accessible in both audio format and textual transcription, this roundtable interview offers a timely resource for researchers, students, and a broader public interested in the literary present and futures of ageing and older age.

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Authors & Contributors
Altschuler, Sari B.
Bezio, Kelly L.
Crisciani, Chiara
Crowe, Michael J.
Dinges, Martin
Duncan, Ian
Journals
19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
Circumscribere: International Journal for the History of Science
Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
Nineteenth-Century Studies
Social History of Medicine
Publishers
Palgrave Macmillan
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of Minnesota
University of Toronto
Cambridge University Press
Edizioni del Galluzzo
Concepts
Health
Science and literature
Literary analysis
Medicine and literature
Aging
Medicine
People
Austen, Jane
Aristotle
Avicenna
Donne, John
Doyle, Arthur Conan
Kuhn, Thomas S.
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
20th century, late
21st century
Medieval
Places
United States
Great Britain
Caribbean
Taiwan
Europe
Germany
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